Quote Originally Posted by KTE View Post
I read some ignorant individual online saying AMD Phenom has problems that it can only go to 800MHz power saving, and it's obvious he had no clue what he was talking about, so we proved him wrong.
Ah looking at your screenies 0.625 also works for you.
Quote Originally Posted by KTE View Post
400MHz is fully stable, even 150MHz was fully stable switching between ~150MHz to 2691MHz. I never tried lower yet.
I think we're making very good ground here Achim, excellent tweakers chip its become.
The high power consumption due to overclocking in idle always bothered me. With a tweaked ps-1 this is no problem anymore.
p-state tweaking is also neat for testing individual cores, even with cnq. As soon as you remove the load you are save.
Gonna try to enable more than two p-states this weekend if i find the time, also have a small gui app in the works, might take a week, can work an hour max per day on that.
Quote Originally Posted by KTE View Post
I am idling 93W AC with the above CnQ config (2xHDD,1xOptical,2xfans). Same as 800MHz/0.850V-1800/1.038. Which means, the power consumption for CPU at the 1GHz mark idling is negligible and most of the AC power is the rest of the system. Phenom at 200MHz/0.600V idle cannot be consuming much power at all, it won't even be 10W DC IMHO.

Quick calc: 95*((200/2300)*(0.600²/1.232²))
= 1.959W TDP

So CPU alone will have very low power idle at those settings, the rest will be nearly all other system component power. That's why CPU power is not going down much and neither is CPU temperature.
Now with those low cpu TDP the difference in AC shrinks, you have one hd more that might make 5W max difference. Gigabyte PSU should arive here next week.
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That's kinda incredible that it can run stable from 100-2700MHz, no core that I know has done that or given the user the ability to run CnQ in such a way. BTW I have the Abit 770 and the GBT Odin since a few hours now. Going to set it up morning, too busy now before sleep.
Wonder in what degree the cpu will suffer from higher voltage and temperature differences over time.
But having different p-state profiles for manual switching will come in handy here.